How old is social media?

[vkumar]

Hello friends,

How old is social media?

[prawalikaroy]

If we're talking about the technologies that can be classified as 'social media', the honor of the Godfathers of Social Media goes to Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis who in 1979 invented the world's first usernet systems

[jayam]

By the 1980s, home computers were becoming more common and social media was becoming more sophisticated. Internet relay chats, or IRCs, were first used in 1988 and continued to be popular well into the 1990's. The first recognizable social media site, Six Degrees, was created in 1997.

[seo.svlapp]

Social media has become an integral part of all of our lives. We use it to connect with friends and family, to catch up on current events, and, perhaps most importantly, to entertain ourselves. This is why just under 70 percent of Americans, and more than 2.6 billion active users globally, use social networking sites.